Nigeria's Freedom Fighter

Prominent Nigerian political activist and lawyer, an arch advocate of human rights and good governance, DELE FAROTIMI, speaks to Africa Here and Now about his experience of being imprisoned because he accused a powerful senior lawyer of corruption.

The allegation is that in his latest book, DELE FAROTIMI, defames a senior legal luminary AFE BABALOLA by accusing him of subverting justice in a case heard by the Supreme Court.

Out on bail after three weeks of imprisonment, DELE says Nigeria’s criminal justice system is rotten from top to toe. He bemoans the absence of the rule of law in the country and says he was imprisoned without legal due process.

DELE’s claims about the system of justice in today’s Nigeria are explosive and have led to the authorities trying to ban his book, sales of which have skyrocketed since his arrest.

DELE’s case gained unprecedented support from ordinary Nigerians who voiced their outrage at his detention. This, he says, is what sustains his activism and the hope that a new Nigeria is still possible.

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